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Terence Tao: Just a brief announcement that I have been working with Quanta Books to publish a short book in popular mathematics entitled “Six Math Essentials“, which will cover six of the fundamental concepts in mathematics.

This was written up in 2016: https://www.quantamagazine.org/hyperuniformity-found-in-bird...

A simple proof of the Gaussian correlation conjecture extended to multivariate gamma distributions by Thomas Royen: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1028.pdf

2015 PISA results for U.S.: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-2015-United-States.pdf

Though Zhang did get a profile in TNY: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

And quite a bit of news coverage: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130519-unheralded-mathemati...

The video mentions that physicists are looking for the "ripples" (gravitational waves) that would prove inflation, and while they haven't found them yet, they seem to be getting closer to detecting them.

David Kaplan also made Particle Fever: http://particlefever.com/

This is the paper in question: http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831

This is the Planck analysis on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738

In-depth profiles and videos about all 4 Fields medalists here: http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-...

Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.0290v2.pdf